Racial and ethnic disparities in risk and survival in children with neuroblastoma: An updated analysis.

Authors

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Caileigh Pudela

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Caileigh Pudela , Mark A. Applebaum , Sang Mee Lee , Arlene Naranjo , Julie R. Park , Samuel Louis Volchenboum , Tara O. Henderson , Susan Lerner Cohn , Ami Vijay Desai

Organizations

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Children's Oncology Group Statistics and Data Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Seattle Children's Hospital and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Background: Biologic and socioeconomic factors contribute to health disparities among patients with pediatric cancer. In an analysis of Children’s Oncology Group (COG) neuroblastoma (NBL) patients (pts) diagnosed between 2001-2009, non-Hispanic Black (Black) pts were previously shown to have a higher prevalence of high-risk disease and worse event-free survival (EFS) compared to non-Hispanic White (White) pts. Here, we analyzed data in the International Neuroblastoma Risk Group Data Commons (INRGdc) to validate these findings. Methods: Three-year EFS and overall survival (OS) of COG pts diagnosed between 2001-2009 (Cohort 1; n = 4,358) and 2010-2016 (Cohort 2; n = 3,689) in the INRGdc with known race and ethnicity were estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to evaluate differences in EFS and OS between racial/ethnic groups. The association of clinical characteristics and tumor biomarkers with racial/ethnic groups were analyzed using Chi-square tests. Results: The distribution of race/ethnicity for pts in Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 was as follows, respectively: White: 72% (n = 3,136) and 70% (n = 2,575); Black: 11.4% (n = 495) and 10.7% (n = 397); Hispanic: 12.2% (n = 532) and 14.1% (n = 522); Asian and Hawaiian: 4% (n = 178) and 4.6% (n = 172); Native American: 0.4% (n = 17) and 0.6% (n = 23). In both cohorts, a higher proportion of Black pts had INSS stage 4 disease, age ≥ 18mo, and unfavorable histology tumors when compared to White pts (Cohort 1: p = 0.003; p < 0.001; p < 0.001, respectively vs Cohort 2: p = 0.014; p < 0.001; p < 0.001, respectively). No significant differences in the proportion of pts with MYCN amplified or diploid tumors were detected between Black and White pts in either cohort. Black pts had a higher prevalence of high-risk disease compared to White pts in both Cohorts 1 and 2 (p < 0.001 and p < 0.001, respectively). Among all pts in Cohort 1, EFS was 73% and OS was 83%. In Cohort 1, Black pts had worse EFS (68% vs 73%; HR = 1.31, 95%CI 1.11-1.55, p = 0.002) and OS (78% vs 84%; HR = 1.41, 95% CI 1.16-1.70, p = 0.001) compared to White pts. Among all pts in Cohort 2, EFS was 81% and OS was 88%. Black pts in Cohort 2 also had worse EFS compared to White pts (76% vs 82%; HR = 1.35, 95% CI = 1.03-1.76, p = 0.027), although no significant difference in OS was observed (p = 0.21). In analyses restricted to high-risk pts, no statistically significant difference in EFS and OS in Black vs White pts was detected in either cohort. Conclusions: In the modern treatment era, Black NBL pts continue to have a higher prevalence of high-risk disease and inferior 3-year EFS compared to White pts. The lack of significant difference in survival among high-risk NBL pts by race suggests that Black and White pts are receiving comparable treatments and responding similarly. The socioeconomic and/or genomic factors contributing to the higher proportion of Black pts with high-risk disease requires further investigation.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2021 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Pediatric Oncology

Track

Pediatric Oncology

Sub Track

Pediatric Solid Tumors

Citation

J Clin Oncol 39, 2021 (suppl 15; abstr 10036)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2021.39.15_suppl.10036

Abstract #

10036

Poster Bd #

Online Only

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